1 . 很少有人知道这位30岁的外科医生曾经历过一场险些致命的交通事故。（cost）（汉译英）
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2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。1.

A．He was punished to be working in an animal shelter.

B．He was fined a lot of money and lost his job as a butcher.

C．He was forbidden from living in his apartment for three years.

D．He was heavily fined and not allowed to keep animals for ten years.

2.

A．He was scratched by the cat he raised at home.

B．His car was captured and nearly killed by the tiger.

C．He was attacked by the tiger and was bit in the arm.

D．His tiger was seriously ill after eating the raw meat.

3.

A．Ming can’t live without jazz and hip-hop.

B．Ming is not accustomed to the country life.

C．Ming doesn’t like the food in the animal shelter.

D．He can't fall asleep without Ming’s smell and noise.

3 . 春节总是让人想到希望与活力，在这样一个辞旧迎新、万家团圆的节日里，我们走亲访友给大家带去美好的祝福。(when) (汉译英)

4 . Directions: Read the following three passages. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Public Opinion Counts

Modbury is a typical small town of the south of England with a population of about 1,600. Typical, that is, apart from the fact that there are no plastic carrier bags in the town. None. Plastic bags have been well and truly dumped!

The removal of the plastic bags was the brainchild of Rebecca Hosking, Modbury resident and documentary-maker. Filming a documentary in the Pacific Ocean, Rebecca was horrified at the effects of plastic bags on the wildlife off Hawaii. Among other things, she saw seabirds fatally trapped in plastic bags that don’t biodegrade. When Rebecca returned to her hometown, she discussed this problem with people, including the shopkeepers and everyone supported her suggestion to make the town plastic bag free.

But for Rebecca’s concept, Modbury would still be an unremarkable little place. Now, however, shoppers take re-usable cotton bags shopping with them, or they buy biodegradable corn starch ones on the shops. The shopkeepers now wrap their goods in paper. To prove that the townsfolk are not only committed to reducing plastic waste, they organised a mass beach clean-up last year. Dozens of volunteers came to the beach on the appointed day to clean it up, taking the rubbish that visitors throw away and recycling it. And the greatest part of that rubbish was... no, not plastic bags, but plastic bottles.

Becoming the first town in Europe to ban plastic bags, Modbury is now harvesting the rewards of fame — reporters and camera crews from newspapers and TV channels across the world are coming to this mild town to find out its secret. And, contrary to some of the initial reports, it is a normal town, trying to live life in a slightly different way. As one resident put it. “We’re ordinary people, but we want to make just a little difference.”

5 . Google has been hit with a class-action lawsuit claiming discrimination against conservative-minded white men, in a legal case that threatens a fresh round of the culture wars that swept across the internet company last summer.

The suit has been brought by James Damore, an engineer who was dismissed in August after his questioning of Google policies to increase the hiring of women and minorities caused an outcry inside the company. It also names a second engineer, David Gudeman, who has also claimed wrongful termination after leaving the company in 2016. The company did not immediately have a response to the suit.

Since leaving Google, Mr Damore has spoken out widely against the company, attacking it for what he calls “group-think” over gender and other diversity issues. His case became a rallying (召集) point for conservatives last year at a time when cultural battles stirred by President Donald Trump were intensifying nationally.

The class action lawsuit, filed in superior court in California on Monday, was brought on behalf of all employees whom Google is claimed to have discriminated against either because of “their perceived conservative political views... their male gender... [or] their Caucasian race (白色人种).”

The lawsuit claims that there is “open hostility for conservative thought” at the company and that people who differ from the mainstream are singled out for expressing views on subjects such as diversity hiring policies, prejudice sensitivity and social justice.

Employees are “abandoned, belittled and punished for their heterodox (异端的) political views, and for the added guilt of their birth circumstances of being Caucasians and/or males”, according to the lawsuit. It accuses Google of being an “ideological echo chamber (意识形态回音室)” that is hostile to some workers, and of maintaining illegal hiring ratios for women and minorities. The suit will move forward only if a judge certifies it as a valid action on behalf of an entire class of workers.

Mr Damore was dismissed by Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, after writing an internal memo questioning the company’s diversity policies. His paper was widely circulated and aroused a backlash inside Google. But his treatment brought an outcry from conservatives who saw Mr Pichai’s reaction as an attack on open discussion of an important social issue.

Among the allegations (指控), the lawsuit claims that “the presence of Caucasians and males was laughed at with ‘boos’ during company-wide weekly meetings” at Google.

1. James Damore was fired by Google because ______.

A．Google is intolerant of different viewpoints of employees

B．it was hard for him to adapt to the corporate culture of Google

C．he embraced the vision that women were underemployed in Google

D．he challenged the company’s policies about the diversity of its employees

2. Which of the following sentences is correct?

A．Google considers women more suited that men to engineering

B．The code of conduct and basic values of Google are in everyone’s interest.

C．Google is trying to wipe out some kind of discrimination in the company.

D．White people are underrated for their conservative political opinions in Google.

3. What does the underlined word “backlash” probably mean?

A．Resistance.

B．Sympathy.

C．Passion.

D．Caution.

4. The passage is chiefly concerned with a dismissed Google employee ______.

A．arguing against a reversed discrimination in the company

B．advocating the same treatment to employees in the company

C．exploring solutions to inequality among employees in the company

D．warning that the company’s values are affecting the employees negatively

6 . Email is one of the Internet’s oldest apps — from the days before we used the word “app” even — and despite its drawbacks, most of us still use it every day.

Typically, the apps we download in 2020 have been _________for mere days or months. We are used to the pang of regret when really useful software suddenly winks out of existence. How has email remained a(n) _________ for nearly years? Yes, it is helpful that email is based on a(n) _________ communications medium that stretches back to some of the first examples of written language. But that isn’t the full story.

First, email managed to survive massive upheavals in the way we use computers. In the early 1970s, when email was born, it was almost _________ a tool for researchers, university students and engineers. You would send, receive and store your email on a work computer. With the _________ of personal computers in the 1980s and 90s, email became something you kept on your own private machines or disks — almost like storing old letters in a shoebox. Now we have come full circle. Most of us store our personal mail in the cloud, which is _________ like storing it on somebody else’s work computer.

It is extremely rare to see apps make the leap from one platform to another like email did. They tend to _________ in the journey from web to mobile, or from one game system to another.

As well as _________ dramatic tech changes, email dealt with another major hurdles — spam (垃圾邮件). In the 1990s and early 2000s, people’s inboxes were _________ with so much junk that it was impossible to find the stuff you wanted. You had to install another program — a spam filter — just to use your email program. But in the age of cloud mail, anti-spam systems have become so good that it is __________ to see one of those quaint old subject lines touting (标榜) “VI@grs@!” or “pron” to get around word filters.

And yet, __________ its heroic triumph over tech obsolescence and spam, email isn’t exactly alluring (吸引人的). We use it mostly for official __________, automated reminders and shopping receipts, along with the occasional bit of personal news. Though email communication is practically instantaneous, it feels __________. Why email when you could text?

Perhaps that is the point. Email isn’t a brand-new way to __________ nor is it juiced up with memes and not takes. But we are still opening G-mail or Hot-mail every day because it works and everybody has it. Under the hood, email uses protocol (数据传递的协议) that keeps trying to send data, over and over, hoping that it can outlast network problems. It doesn’t give up. And somehow, by trying really earnestly, it has __________ the computers where it has born and the spammers who tried to defeat it.

1.

A．available

B．effective

C．free

D．reasonable

2.

A．servant

B．dominance

C．constant

D．function

3.

A．ancient

B．cheap

C．direct

D．simple

4.

A．exceptionally

B．exclusively

C．generally

D．inclusively

5.

A．addition

B．company

C．impact

D．rise

6.

A．essentially

B．literally

C．physically

D．potentially

7.

A．die

B．malfunction

C．upgrade

D．withdraw

8.

A．bringing about

B．conflicting with

C．struggling with

D．weathering

9.

A．buried

B．clogged

C．charged

D．featured

10.

A．excited

B．rare

C．relieved

D．unpleasant

11.

A．despite

B．instead of

C．regardless of

D．thanks to

12.

A．announcement

B．connection

C．correspondence

D．publication

13.

A．short

B．convenient

C．distant

D．slow

14.

A．contribute

B．cooperate

C．evolve

D．socialize

15.

A．abandoned

B．defeated

C．outlived

D．unified

7 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. mounting        B. stimulus        C. distribution        D. interventions        E. divided F. collapse       G. sustainable        H. shrinking        I. trembled        J. distinctions K. reshape

In February the Coronavirus pandemic struck the world’s economy with the biggest shock since the second world war. Lock-downs and a slump in consumer spending led to a labour market     1     in which the equivalent of nearly 500m full-time jobs disappeared almost overnight. World trade     2     as factories shut down and countries closed their borders. An even deeper economic catastrophe was avoided thanks only to unprecedented     3     in financial markets by central banks, government aid to workers and failing firms, and the expansion of budget deficits to near-wartime levels.

The crash was synchronized. As a recovery takes place, however, huge gaps between the performance of countries are opening up — which could yet     4     the world’s economic order.

By the end of next year, according to forecasts by the OECD, America’s economy will be the same size as it was in 2019 but China’s will be 10% larger. Europe will still languish beneath its pre-pandemic level of output and could do so for several years — a fate it may share with Japan, which is suffering a demo-graphic squeeze. The     5     of growth rates across 50 economies was at its widest for at least 40 years.

These adjustment will be immense. The pandemic will leave economies less globalized, more digitized and less equal. As they cut risks in their supply chains and harness automation, manufacturers will bring production closer to home. As office workers continue to work in their kitchens and bedrooms for at least part of the week, lower-paid workers who previously worked as waiters, cleaners and sales assistants will need to find new jobs in the suburbs. Until they do, they could face long spells of unemployment. In America permanent job losses are     6     even as the headline unemployment rate falls.

Instead America’s weakness is toxic and     7     politics. This week President Donald Trump seemed to abandon talks over renewing its     8    , meaning that the economy could fall over a fiscal cliff. Critical reforms, whether to redesign the safety-net for a tech-driven economy or to put deficits on a     9     course, are all but impossible while two warring tribes define compromise as weakness, Covid-19 is imposing a new economic reality. Every country will be called on to adapt, but America faces a daunting task. If it is to lead the post-pandemic world, it will have to reset its politics.

The pandemic has created big performance     10     between the world’s economies. They could get even larger.

8 . Directions: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words below. Note that there is one more expression than needed.   

weigh; involve; trend; practice;   flood bombard... with...; present...with...; apply…to….; have a low opinion of;

1. The job of a salesman is really demanding because it __________ frequent business trips.
2. At the award ceremony of Oscar, winners each ________ a little gold man, which is a great honor.
3. Social media, magazines and shop windows _______ people daily _________ things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes than ever before.
4. I ________ the benefits of the plan against the risks involved just now.
5. We now have a generation of adults who believe that posting information, words, and photographs regarding their activities, likes, and location is a normal __________.
6. Memories of her childhood came _________ back .
7. In a recent post I noted the upward _________ in automobile production, particularly in Asia.
8. As artificial intelligence has __________ the App, it can provide students with instant feedback on their performance in reading and word-spelling.

9 . This Is How Scandinavia Got Great

Almost everybody admires the Nordic model. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland have high economic productivity, high social equality, high social trust and high levels of personal happiness.

Nordic nations were ethnically homogeneous(同质的) in 1800, when they were dirt poor. Their economic growth took off just after 1870, way before their welfare states were established.     1    

The 19th-century Nordic elites did something we haven’t been able to do in our country recently. They realized that if their countries were to prosper they had to create truly successful “folk schools” for the least educated among them. They realized that they were going to have to make lifelong learning a part of the natural fabric of society.

    2     The German word they used to describe their approach, bildung, doesn’t even have an English equivalent. It means the complete moral, emotional, intellectual and civic transformation of the person. It was based on the idea that if people were going to be able to handle and contribute to an emerging industrial society, they would need more complex inner lives.

Today, Americans often think of schooling as the transmission of specialized skill sets — the student can read, do math and recite the facts of biology.     3     It is devised to help them understand complex systems and see the relations between things — between self and society, between a community of relationships in a family and a town.

The Nordic educators worked hard to cultivate each student’s sense of connection to the nation. Before the 19th century, most Europeans identified themselves in local and not national terms.     4     The idea was to create in the mind of the student a sense of wider circles of belonging — from family to town to nation — and an eagerness to assume shared responsibility for the whole.

That educational push seems to have had a lasting influence on the culture. Whether in Stockholm or Minneapolis, Scandinavians have a tendency to joke about the way their sense of responsibility is always nagging at them. They have the lowest rates of corruption in the world. They have a distinctive sense of the relationship between personal freedom and communal responsibility.

A．Bildung is the way that the individual matures and takes upon him or herself ever bigger academic responsibility.

B．What really launched the Nordic nations was generations of phenomenal educational policy.

C．Bildung is designed to change the way students see the world.

D．But the Nordic curriculum conveyed to students a pride in, say, their Danish history, folklore and heritage.

E．They look at education differently than we do.

F．The Nordic educators also worked hard to develop the student’s internal awareness.

10 . 尽管他觉得这个有关于节省劳动力装置的建议值得尝试，但最终他还是没有采纳。（worth）(汉译英）